Roman  E. Bogachev, Elena  N. Musaelian, Larisa  N. Miroshnichenko, Olga  N. Yarygina, 
    The Notion Interconnections of “Os-Drihten” Within One Conceptual Meaning,
    The Social Sciences,
    Volume 10,Issue 6,
    2015,
    Pages 1135-1137,
    ISSN 1818-5800,
    sscience.2015.1135.1137,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2015.1135.1137)
    Abstract: This study is devoted to the problem of the conceptual meaning, the definition of key-concepts. For this definition, we use the symbolic meaning of ancient runic inscriptions and analyze the meaning of the key-concept Os according to the Old English texts. The attention is drawn to the interconnection of two notions: “Os Drihten” and the transformation of the key-concept Os nuclear meaning at the edge of two epochs the Paganism and the Christianity. We can suppose that as a key concept, the concept Os has such important features as flexibility and stability. Despite the lack of practical material for a full conceptual analysis and at the same time the lopsidedness of this material, a runic script in our opinion, contains the basic elements of the key concepts of the ancient Germans. This allows to analyze not only in a synchronic timecut but also to trace the development of concepts qualities and features in a diachronic timecut especially during the transformation from an all-German Koine to individual national language systems.
    Keywords: Concept;runic inscriptions;symbolic value;Old English;koy-concept